Interesting talk by Bryan Cantrill on DTrace. At the beginning he rips into Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg. Scott’s talk at Google is here.

Yahoo Pipes is very cool. Proof at last that the Internet is a series of tubes.

Baseline Mag has an overview of how MySpace coped with rapid growth. Basically a good lesson in how not to build a dynamic database backed website. 

Sparkle is a programmers tool that automates application updates.

find and grep are the programmers friend. But when using Subversion find will also decend into .svn directories. Generally we don’t want this to happen. The following find command will skip .svn directories. For more type ‘man find’ at your favorite prompt.

Firebug 1.0 beta is out. If you’re a web developer you need Firebug. It makes a lot of things easy that used to be a pain. It is marv.

Coding Horror has an excellent summary of software project postmortem resources.

One of the first things I purchased when starting university was a Casio fx-580 calculator. At the time this was an amazing machine because it did complex numbers - something engineers spend a lot of time pondering. I still have it on my desk and use it every day. Over the years, though, the screen had started to fade. That is, at least, until five minutes ago when it was cleaned for the first time in twenty years. And underneath? A shiny - non-faded - screen. Here’s to another twenty years of muck. They don’t make ‘em…

Here’s a link to another Spore video from E3. In this demo Will Wright brings on Robin Williams towards the end to build a creature. Funny.

Will Wright gave a demo of Spore at E3 2006. Here’s a direct link to the video (200M mov). Also YouTube has a short demo piece here.